Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-03-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
HosxrT BONNER has been offered 100000
FOR Maud s.

AN icelander Is in Washington Territory
looking for place To locate a colony.
SHOES made of rice straw are worn by thu
iaooring people in the south of China.
eAs and coal have been discovered in
good quantities near Ossawotamie, Kan.
IHK remains OF a Baltimore editor were
sold for ten dollars to a medical college.
1T Is rumored that Secretary Bayard will
soon participate in wedding ceremony.
a bRooKLYN alderman Is accused Of
wearing bit of plate glars as diamond
TuE city council of st. Louis has fixed
elght hours as legal wock day for city
laborers.
fIRM of perfumc-p.anufacturc are
about to establish vast flower plantation.
in Florida.
ArHrsIcr,S says: ''If child does no,
thrive on fresh milk, boil it," This is too
severe on the child
ASPHALT has been discovered in Morgan
County, Ala. II is the only known deposit
In the United States.
MRS. MARGARET j. Preston, the well
known Southern writer, is threatened
with total blindness.
The Great Eastern, which cost at he,
completion in 1889, si,0OO,0oO, has been solo
at auction for $4,000.
- b'hctdilN Conceucd that III France
and Germany fight, Russia will walk of
with good slice OF pie.
The average age Of those who enter col
lege in this country is seventeen A cen
tury ago II was fourteen.
MISS EMILY FAITHFUL is advocating the
emigration OF unmarried women from
England TO the British colonies.
The rolling mills throughout Western
~
ed with orders for several weeks
THE Colorado supreme court has decided
that women can not act as notaries public
in that State under existing laws.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is of the opir ion that
we should first obtain guns. and then the
matter OF Notifications might bo consid.
cred
MAJOR Ben: PERLEY PooRE tells GATH
that every President who called an extra
session Of Congress failed TO get renomi.
mated
The indications are that the railroads
will soon be tumbling over one another in
their eagerness 10 bounce the deadly stove
from their cars
IT is stated that the Gar of Russia az
cretly visited Paris and had an inter view
with President Grevy, recently. lie trav-
eled in disguise
SERGEANT SnsTH, of Richmond Va. ba,
been fined SO for permitting more persons
10 witness the execution of Cluvcrius
than allowed by law.
ST PAUL and Minneapolis are fighting
Tor the State Capital. The latter city in.
tends Offering site and building costing
100000 10 the State free.
GOVERNOR DAVIS, the new Senator-clect
from Minnesota, is "a much younger man
than Ben Butler, but almost his exact
counterpart in appearance
PROP. ALEXANDER declares that he ha.
sounded the extinct crater near the leper
settlement at Moiokai, and line 3.5O) feet
long remained taut and failed 10 reach the
bottom.
A GIRL has just been arrested in New
York for stealing the watch and jewelrv OF
friend, and the fact was that she had
pawned them 10 get money TO bury her
mother
Miss CARRIE DUKE, the daughter OF the
famous Confederate General, Basil Duke
Is wonderful player on the violin. and is
now entertaining her friends at the Ma
tional Capital.
The abolition Of the free pass system by
the railroads will, IT is said, be a feature
OF the enforcement of the interstate com.
merce law, over which a strong legal cues.
tion will be raised.
THE library Of George Washington. pur-
chased in 1SiS at cost OF 5000. is one OF
the many interesting collections which
have come into the possession of the Bos-
ton AthenRum Library
PRIScEss CoLoSSA. the daughter Of Mrs.
j. w Mackay, is 10 accompany her hus
band TO this country in the spring He Is
. -.
terests in Mexico and Texas.
a WESTERN man sent in 10 an editor an
item 10 the effect that his forticth wedding
anniversary would be observed on a GER
tain day, but the printer inadvertently left
out the word anniversary
JoHS &. CALHOUN, Of South Carolina.
grandson Of the great nulliher, has the sec
ohd largest cotton field in the United
States. He was a Captain in the Confed-
crate service at eighteen and is now forty.
one.
Mn. CHAs. GALLowAY, Of Winchester, Va.
was 50 overcome by the receipt Of tele-
gram that she dropped dead. Had she
waited 20 open u she would simply have
found that her sister was coming on a
visit
THE Treasury Department decides that
finished photographs from negatives taken
for citizens Of the United States while vis-
iting the Canadian side Of Niagara Falls
must pay duty when sent 20 the purchas-
ers in this country.
Two men who were in LincOln's Cabinet
still live. One is Hannibal Hamlin, who
acted as his Vice President. and who is
very happy among his books and trout
streams in Maine, and the other - Simon
Cameron, who is now in the Bermudas for
| his health.
DAKOTA woman in the Upper James
/ Valley decided that she wanted a fur
cloak 1he began trapping mink and tan
ming the skins. These she sent 10 ST. Paul
where they have Just been made into a
beautiful Ooak fyr which she was oFar
/ ed Si25.
The mother Of q young woman in Oak,
land, Cal. who had injured her health BY
too much study, offered her ton cents for
every squirrel she would shoot The
daughter took 20 the woods. and In ono
week recently shot eghty-five squire $,
and Is fast regaining her health
A REPORT is current that the Eastern
| prohibitionists have picked out nr Phineas
/ T Barnum as their candidate for the Pres-
idency in 1855. The Kansas City Journal
says shat the non.intoXicaut quality Of NJ
Barnum's circus lemonade, witch IS o
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